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1、Watch the video and answer the following questions.1. Is there anything different about the wedding? Audiovisual supplementCultural informationThe wedding is not like the traditional American wedding. The bridegroom is from a different culture.When people from different cultures live together, the b
2、ig problems for them may be the different languages, different lifestyles, different eating habits, and different religions, etc.2. What are the big problems for people from different cultures when they live together?Audiovisual supplementCultural informationPriest: Weve come together to show our su
3、pport for Sidney and Rachel, and their joining hands and joining themselves together in holy wedlock. The weathers been pretty miserable all weekend, but now its a beautiful day. And its a beautiful day because when two people come together who really love one another and want to share that with oth
4、er people, it makes it a beautiful day. So Sidney Williams and Rachel Buchman have come to do that. And, Rachel, you go first. Audiovisual supplementCultural informationRachel:Sidney: Rachel:Paul Buchman likes to say that the measure of a great life is not how well loved you are, but how well you lo
5、ve others. Sidney, you teach me that every day. You are just so full of grace, and I promise before God and these beautiful people that I will love you fiercely and sweetly. And I look forward to sharing that great life with you. Thank you for marrying me.All that I ever wanted was to just hear musi
6、c, and when I met you, I heard you. And, Rachel, youre the most beautiful thing Ive ever heard. Thank you for marrying me.Youre welcome.Audiovisual supplementCultural informationHuman beings draw close to one another by their common nature, but habits and customs keep them apart. Confucius1. QuoteAu
7、diovisual supplementCultural informationAudiovisual supplementCultural information The key to effective cross-cultural communication is knowledge. 2. Cross-cultural Communication Strategiesu First, it is essential that people understand the potential problems of cross-cultural communication, and mak
8、e a conscious effort to overcome these problems. u Second, it is important to assume that ones efforts will not always be successful, and adjust ones behavior appropriately.Audiovisual supplementCultural information Suggestion for heated conflicts is to stop, listen, and think. This helps in cross-c
9、ultural communication as well. u When things seem to be going badly, stop or slow down and think. u Active listening can sometimes be used to check this out by repeating what one thinks he or she heard, one can confirm that one understands the communication accurately. u Often intermediaries who are
10、 familiar with both cultures can be helpful in cross-cultural communication situations. They can translate both the substance and the manner of what is said. They may explain the problem, and make appropriate procedural adjustments. Text analysisStructural analysis1. Which sentence is the thesis sta
11、tement?The last sentence of the 3rd paragraph: “Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society and one that we overlook at our peril.”Text analysisStructural analysis2. Compromising, in the authors view, is a key notion in translation and
12、 thus also in intercultural communication. Numerous examples are used to explain this notion. Try to find these examples.Paragraph 4: The lack of an exact counterpart of the English word “homesickness” in other languages such as Italian, Portuguese, and German.Paragraph 5: The problem of untranslata
13、bility which the early Bible translators encountered.Text analysisStructural analysisParagraph 6: English and Welsh speakers make adjustments regarding the color spectrum in the grey / green / blue / brown range; the flat breads of Central Asia are a long way away from Mothers Pride white sliced toa
14、sties, yet the word “bread” has to serve for both.1. What type of writing is this essay? And whats the main strategy the author adopt to develop the body of the essay?Text analysisStructural analysis It is a piece of argumentation. Abundant examples are provided to support her argument in the body o
15、f the essay.Text analysisStructural analysisParagraphsMain idea1-3It describes the communications revolution taking place worldwide and the widespread use of the English language, and then points out that there are indeed problems with the communications revolution.2. Divide the text into parts by c
16、ompleting the table. ParagraphsMain idea4-78It exemplifies that language and culture are so closely interrelated that often we find that what we can say in one language cannot be conveyed at all in another, and that confronted with insurmountable linguistic problems, translators negotiate the bounda
17、ries between languages and come up with a compromise. It briefly points out the immense significance of intercultural understanding.Text analysisStructural analysisSusan BassnettCultural EncountersDetailed reading We live in an age of easy access to the rest of the world. Cheap flights mean that mil
18、lions of people are able to visit places their parents could only dream about, while the Internet enables us to communicate with the remotest places and the traditional postal services are now referred to almost mockingly as “snail mail.” When students go off backpacking, they can email their parent
19、s from Internet cafes in the Himalayas or from a desert oasis. And as for mobile phones the clicking of text messaging at any hour of the day or night has become familiar to us all. Everyone, it seems, provided, of course, they can afford to do so, need never be out of touch.1 Significantly also, th
20、is great global communications revolution is also linked to the expansion of English, which has now become the leading international language. Conferences and business meetings around the globe are held in English, regardless of whether anyone present is a native English speaker. English has simply
21、become the language that facilitates communication, and for many people learning English is an essential stepping stone on the road to success.Detailed reading2 So why, you may wonder, would anyone have misgivings about all these wonderful developments, and why does the rise of English as a global l
22、anguage cause feelings of uneasiness for some of us? For there are indeed problems with the communications revolution, problems that are not only economic. Most fundamental is the profound relationship between language and culture that lies at the heart of society and one that we overlook at our per
23、il.Detailed reading3 Different cultures are not simply groups of people who label the world differently; languages give us the means to shape our views of the world and languages are different from one another. We express what we see and feel through language, and because languages are so clearly cu
24、lture-related, often we find that what we can say in one language cannot be expressed at all in another. The English word “homesickness” translates into Italian as “nostalgia,” but English has had to borrow that same word to describe a different state of mind, something that is not quite homesicknes
25、s and involves a kind of longing. Homesickness and nostalgia put together are almost, but not quite, the Portuguese “saudade,” an untranslatable word that describes a state of mind that is not despair, Detailed reading4Detailed readingangst (English borrowed that from German), sadness or regret, but
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